An East Antarctica ice shelf disintegrated this month following a period of extreme heat in the region, according to scientists.
Satellite images show the 1,200 square-kilometre Conger Ice Shelf collapsed completely on or around March 15.
This process creates columns hundreds of miles long that carry water vapour from the tropics, creating an effect Neff described as "a fire hose of moisture." In the last century, East Antarctica barely warmed at all, but some regions have been affected and the continent lost an average of 149 billion tonnes of ice per year from 2002 to 2020, according to NASA. The loss of the Conger Ice Shelf is the latest example of changes afoot.
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